Maker: Gildea & Walker

Pottery: Dale Hall Works

Place: Burslem, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 August 1881

Dimensions: Unknown

Maker: Winkle & Wood

Pottery: Pearl Pottery

Place: Hanley, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 1888

Dimensions: Unknown

Maker: Mintons

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1879-1890

Dimensions: 8 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Mintons

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1879-1890

Dimensions: 8 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Mintons

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1879-1890

Dimensions: 8 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Mintons

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1879-1890

Dimensions: 8 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Nick Bottom is a character who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. The characters are in the woods rehearsing a play when the transformation takes place, and they all are frightened and run away. Bottom stays behind, and is seen on the tile, sitting in the woods, admiring his good looks as he is not aware that he now has the head of a donkey.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hermia has chosen Lysander even though her father has promised her to Demetrius. Due to mixups with the fairies and Oberon's love potion, both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena. They are out to kill each other over Helena, and Hermia is angry with Helena for stealing her lover. Oberon orders Puck to keep Lysander and Demetrius from catching up with one another and to remove the charm from Lysander. So Lysander can return to love Hermia, while Demetrius continues to love Helena.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Obsessed over Demetrius, Helena's character emphasizes the capriciousness of love and its excesses. Even though Demetrius and Helena were betrothed at one time, when Demetrius met her friend Hermia, he fell in love with her instead. Helena became the one nobody loved, and she was forlorn wondering what was wrong with her. The image of her on the tile shows a sad and lovesick young woman.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hermia is the main character of the play, around whose dilemmas, all of the play's drama and comedy springs.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lysander is a young man who falls in love with a woman named Hermia. Her father, Egeus, has someone else named Demetrius in mind for his daughter. Hermia would rather have Lysander, and that makes her father angry. The scene on the tile shows Lysander in a dejected mood leaning against a large tree with his sword laying on the ground in front of him.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Moth is a fairy servant of the Fairy Queen Titania and commanded to serve Bottom.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Oberon is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which he is consort to Titania, Queen of the Fairies.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Peasblossom's role is fairy servant to Queen Titania.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is based on the ancient figure of Puck found in English mythology. Puck, the servant of Oberon, King of the Fairies, is a clever, mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester whose antics and spells affect the entire plot of the play.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches

Notes: This is a series of 12 tiles designed by Helen J. A. Miles c. 1878 for Wedgwood based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania, seen here, is the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's play. The scene on this tile shows Titania doing her best to soothe Bottom whose head was changed to that of a donkey through the trickery of Puck. A mythological character, Puck, in the play, is a servant to Oberon, the King of the Fairies.

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1885

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1885

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1885

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1885

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood

Pottery: Etruria Works

Place: Etruria, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1878

Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter